Brussels [Belgium], September 9 (ANI): India’s Annu Rani completed seventh within the ladies’s javelin throw occasion on the Brussels Diamond League 2023 athletics meet held on the King Baudouin Stadium in Belgium on Friday.
Annu Rani’s finest throw measured 57.74m in her third try. It was significantly wanting her private better of 63.82m, which can also be a nationwide document. Annu Rani’s season’s finest, in the meantime, is 59.24m.
Reigning world champion Haruka Kitaguchi of Japan gained the ladies’s javelin throw occasion with a world-leading throw of 67.38m. The effort was additionally a private finest and a Japanese nationwide document.
The prime 5 athletes, together with world championships silver medallist Flor Ruiz of Colombia, managed to log throws past the 60m mark on the Brussels meet.
Annu Rani was the one Indian collaborating within the final leg of the Diamond League. The Brussels leg, popularly generally known as Memorial Van Damme, was Annu Rani’s first Diamond League competitors this season.
The 31-year-old Indian javelin thrower has competed in only one Diamond League meet earlier than at Lausanne in 2019. There, too, she completed seventh.
Annu Rani has struggled for type of late. Since profitable the bronze medal on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in August final 12 months, the previous Asian Games medallist has didn’t get previous the 60m mark in any of the occasions she has competed in.
The Brussels leg was the ultimate meet of the Diamond League 2023 season earlier than the finals in Eugene, Oregon, scheduled on September 16 and September 17. (ANI)